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On 31 January 2019, NASA announced that Lucy would launch in October 2021 on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The total cost for the launch was estimated to be US$148.3 million. [25] On 11 February 2019, SpaceX protested the contract award, claiming that it could launch Lucy into the same orbit at a "significantly ...
Lucy, a NASA space probe, was launched on 16 October [3] and began a 12-year journey to seven different asteroids, visiting six Jupiter trojans, and one Main Belt asteroid. [4] Trojans are asteroids which share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun , orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet.
The Lucy spacecraft is set to launch next month from Cape Canaveral. NASA's Lucy mission will be the agency's first study of a group of Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. The Lucy spacecraft is set to ...
Animation of Lucy's trajectory around Sun Lucy · Sun · Earth · 52246 Donaldjohanson · 3548 Eurybates · 21900 Orus · 617 Patroclus. Donaldjohanson is a member of the Erigone family , [3] [4] a large carbonaceous asteroid family of nearly 2,000 known members, which is named after its parent body 163 Erigone
NASA launched Lucy on its nearly $1 billion mission two years ago. The spacecraft is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.
The launch history of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) since the program formed in 1998 at Kennedy Space Center. The launch of NASA robotic missions occurred from a number of launch sites on a variety of rockets. After the list of launches are descriptions of select historic LSP missions.
By studying these asteroids up close, scientists hope to learn more about how our solar system’s planets formed 4.5 billion years ago.